SANS Penetration Testing

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Netcat (often abbreviated to nc) is a computer networking utility for reading from and writing to network connections using TCP or UDP. Netcat is designed to be a dependable back-end that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts. At the same time, it is a feature-rich network debugging and investigation tool, since it can produce almost any kind of connection its user could need and has a number of built-in capabilities.

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Karl Fritz

I have to ask because netcat is no longer supported, why don't you switch to ncat instead? nc.exe is typically recognized as a virus. However, ncat is not. Ncat is still supported as part of the nmap set of tools (but still can be broken out). Why no switch to ncat instead?